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why the soviet union. needed to collapse i think it's quite possible given a different set of political circumstances different choices by this that some kind of multinational soviet union type state could have survived now i think it wouldn't have been a communist or or a socialist state it would be very very different been the soviet system as such but i see no reason that all. gorbachev could have actually succeeded in the least one of these goals which was to keep the soviet union to together it will be on the different but let me make let me make an observation here and this is when we talk about these things of course there are very complex subjects in there so you can say very much in terms of these sound bites that were shooting at each other but the reality is that the soviet elite came to two conclusions one is they did not have the solution to their societies problems and two they no longer had the right to rule and the people in history so for protests they were relatively small number but i wo
why the soviet union. needed to collapse i think it's quite possible given a different set of political circumstances different choices by this that some kind of multinational soviet union type state could have survived now i think it wouldn't have been a communist or or a socialist state it would be very very different been the soviet system as such but i see no reason that all. gorbachev could have actually succeeded in the least one of these goals which was to keep the soviet union to...
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in mind in the eurasian union whether he met in the in the political union there may be for a little bit of time john will see what that'll happen in ten years from many thanks my guest today and province in here in the studio and thanks to our viewers for watching us here to see you next time and remember. plentiful and free the credit patient free transport charges free. range month three per cent free her stereotyped friesland download free broadcast plug in video for your media projects and free media and dog r t dot com. players .
in mind in the eurasian union whether he met in the in the political union there may be for a little bit of time john will see what that'll happen in ten years from many thanks my guest today and province in here in the studio and thanks to our viewers for watching us here to see you next time and remember. plentiful and free the credit patient free transport charges free. range month three per cent free her stereotyped friesland download free broadcast plug in video for your media projects and...
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soviet union came to an end and with it the conclusion of the cold war what is the soviet union's lasting legacy was it inevitable the u.s.s.r. would collapse and is the world a better place today. to cross not the end of the soviet union i'm joined by geoffrey roberts here in the studio he is a historian and professor at the university college cork ireland his upcoming book is stalin's general the life of the go to you cough in new york across the steven cohen he's a professor of russian studies and history at new york university he's also author of soviet fates and lost alternatives from stalin ism to the new cold war and in washington we have richard cricket he is professor emeritus at the university of mary washington he's also author of the afghanistan question and the reset in u.s. russian relations all right gentlemen this is crosstalk that means you can jump in anytime you want but first let's have a look at the last days of the u.s.s.r. . a number of dates are associated with the breakup of the u.s.s.r. but the events that formally ended the existence of the world's largest socia
soviet union came to an end and with it the conclusion of the cold war what is the soviet union's lasting legacy was it inevitable the u.s.s.r. would collapse and is the world a better place today. to cross not the end of the soviet union i'm joined by geoffrey roberts here in the studio he is a historian and professor at the university college cork ireland his upcoming book is stalin's general the life of the go to you cough in new york across the steven cohen he's a professor of russian...
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in mind in the eurasian union whether he meant in the end the political union there may be forty one at a time gentlemen we'll see what that'll happen in ten years from many thanks my guest today and province and here in the studio and thanks to our viewers for watching us here at the phoenix time. and you can. see twenty years ago the largest country in the. disintegrator to. see what had been trying. to teach began a journey. where did it take them.
in mind in the eurasian union whether he meant in the end the political union there may be forty one at a time gentlemen we'll see what that'll happen in ten years from many thanks my guest today and province and here in the studio and thanks to our viewers for watching us here at the phoenix time. and you can. see twenty years ago the largest country in the. disintegrator to. see what had been trying. to teach began a journey. where did it take them.
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in mind in the eurasian union whether he meant in the end the political union there may be for a little out of time gentlemen we'll see what that'll happen in ten years from many thanks my guest today and province and here in the studio and thanks to our viewers for watching us here to see you next time and remember rostov. to. the world. science technology innovation all the latest developments from around russia we've got the few jerks covered.
in mind in the eurasian union whether he meant in the end the political union there may be for a little out of time gentlemen we'll see what that'll happen in ten years from many thanks my guest today and province and here in the studio and thanks to our viewers for watching us here to see you next time and remember rostov. to. the world. science technology innovation all the latest developments from around russia we've got the few jerks covered.
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relations of the union and that left the c.i.s. if it was to exist to find new ways to reintegrate or integrate that was a big mistake if you had to in the union or if it was a good idea why sever all the positive integration well you know that's interesting because i mean if i go to a province i mean that it all members of the soviet republics wanted the soviet union to end i think we have to remember that i think a lot of people definitely thought this was a wrong move and i'm thinking of the central asian republics that thought you know you know we got a pretty good gig here going with moscow they pay for everything we don't pay anything to them i mean this is one of the issues that you know and i will talk about it later the program the ambivalence even russians have about the c.i.s. because who pays for adults but let's go ahead. well that's one issue and another one is that there's always been a great deal of ambivalence toward the union and recreating the union among many of the other republics for example people anticipated
relations of the union and that left the c.i.s. if it was to exist to find new ways to reintegrate or integrate that was a big mistake if you had to in the union or if it was a good idea why sever all the positive integration well you know that's interesting because i mean if i go to a province i mean that it all members of the soviet republics wanted the soviet union to end i think we have to remember that i think a lot of people definitely thought this was a wrong move and i'm thinking of the...
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the soviet union the soviet union as distinct from russia. and once there was no no more any will from moscow to hold the thing together by means of the communist party then the other nationalities starting with the baltic and carrying on with georgia and armenia and so on they started to go their own way and at that point the communist party of the soviet union really lost much of its or is on that now gorbachev perhaps could get a say in the early months of one thousand nine hundred one have split the communist party and lead a kind of social democratic wing of it himself and that might have been successful but significantly he didn't do that so i think really the evidence suggests that the communist party of the soviet union was really unreformable ok vlad you want to jump in on this one you got it yeah i would i would i definitely agree there is this going collusion and i would just that the united russia party is in a sense a revival revived communist party because you know it's the party of the officials of the of the state you know som
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to the collapse of the soffit union. mr gresham co welcome to the show. for civil service talk about the collapse of the soviet union you were the head of the state bank when the soviet union disintegrated. was it as much of a surprise as it was for ninety percent of the russian people. when they. came to the state bank in one thousand nine hundred eighty nine prior to that so i worked my entire life. toward bank foreign trade bank were often interacted with western businesses so i realized we were moving towards a dead end. so. since my college years i've been friends with violence in public of who was the head of the pricing committee and later finance minister and later got involved to the ninety ninety one coup. so i big trouble lots of information from my conversations with him. in fact there were serious reforms in the works in this government they included three key aspects. the first the pricing reform because pricing and been wrong ever since industrialisation. i see. what then there was only government property
to the collapse of the soffit union. mr gresham co welcome to the show. for civil service talk about the collapse of the soviet union you were the head of the state bank when the soviet union disintegrated. was it as much of a surprise as it was for ninety percent of the russian people. when they. came to the state bank in one thousand nine hundred eighty nine prior to that so i worked my entire life. toward bank foreign trade bank were often interacted with western businesses so i realized we...
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that set up the soviet union. the soviet union was finished. in 1991, all the leaders of the republic in the soviet union, and agreed they would settle the soviet union, a commonwealth of independent states but no common center, nobody in charge of their foreign policy. it would literally be no role for gorbachev anymore. gorbachev still felt he was in the soviet union in some form, that they would see and wrote a long letter that they would all day in the kremlin as a figurehead in charge of foreign policy and -- [talking over each other] >> host: delusional. >> guest: james baker was secretary of state at the time went to see him. other foreign visitors. this was two days before the end. they saw gorbachev expanding on possibilities of the soviet union expanding on a role in the world. and with a deadpan face, not literally but figured raising eyes to the rising heavens this guy doesn't get it. >> guest: >> host: addition to the yields and/gorbachev tension you have a group of communist party functionaries leapi
that set up the soviet union. the soviet union was finished. in 1991, all the leaders of the republic in the soviet union, and agreed they would settle the soviet union, a commonwealth of independent states but no common center, nobody in charge of their foreign policy. it would literally be no role for gorbachev anymore. gorbachev still felt he was in the soviet union in some form, that they would see and wrote a long letter that they would all day in the kremlin as a figurehead in charge of...
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the last leader of the soviet union. is now eighty years old his name is forever linked with attempts to reform the soviet system and his policies have received different assessments through the years the russian public opinion research center asked russians to define his historical role fifty one percent of the respondents said his opposed to show who was thinking about the betterment of his country but made a number mistakes sixteen percent called him this honest man who most of my did the collapse of the country and another twelve percent see him as a brave man who took responsibility to oversee vital reforms in the country gorbachev attempted to create a more open and prosperous country through the paula says of glasnost and perestroika back to peter that's what russians think about the legacy of mr gorbachev well our sophie shevardnadze interviewed mr got a bunch off and this is what he said to her about what he thinks his legacy is. going to issue i think it is a united world. removed personas a world where. the wo
the last leader of the soviet union. is now eighty years old his name is forever linked with attempts to reform the soviet system and his policies have received different assessments through the years the russian public opinion research center asked russians to define his historical role fifty one percent of the respondents said his opposed to show who was thinking about the betterment of his country but made a number mistakes sixteen percent called him this honest man who most of my did the...
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could have had a union and the demilitarized more democratic union, soviet union still. >> the legitimate exercise in history. one of the what ifs was what if i had not gone on holiday in august 1991 and allowed the crew to take place he regrets that he went on holiday. the republic leaders signed a new union treaty. that is what took place when it did, because they did not want this treaty which would rob the communist party a lot of this traditional power by think of that dynamic of this tree was such that the soviet union was finished, and these two men in their differ waste. gorbachev by creating circumstances where socialism cannot survive. really tried to entail the socialist the those in the country. hilton who took a big bet on wrecking the system that he sells going to work. >> on the what ifs, what if yeltsin had not had that shock therapy aachen and privatization peace? was a possibility for a soft landing? was the economic reality -- let me phrase that question a different way. if gorbachev had had the same look with oil prices that led mayor pete had over the last decade with
could have had a union and the demilitarized more democratic union, soviet union still. >> the legitimate exercise in history. one of the what ifs was what if i had not gone on holiday in august 1991 and allowed the crew to take place he regrets that he went on holiday. the republic leaders signed a new union treaty. that is what took place when it did, because they did not want this treaty which would rob the communist party a lot of this traditional power by think of that dynamic of...
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the union rules mean for the economy. not as much as you can you think. we've been in a multi-decade shied to possibly single digits where we're headed. there's no change nlrb can do moving off where they have a vote earlier or change or hamper business in america. and the nation for having to vote earlier, is move to a free market. in a free market. couldn't people have to vote whether they want a union, don't have to wait 60 or 90 days, i don't see it's a big deal or as far as the current economy, a lot of the areas where there's hiring going on aren't unionized anyway and a lot of them with the low growth rates are low growth rates and nothing to do with the unions and they're kind of old school industries. and in fact, a lot of construction workers are unions. >> okay, i'd like to hear what gary k has to say about that. >> well, look, there's nothing i like about the union heads and nothing i like about the fact that when they overtake businesses, costs go up. and everything wrong happens, but in this case, i don't th
the union rules mean for the economy. not as much as you can you think. we've been in a multi-decade shied to possibly single digits where we're headed. there's no change nlrb can do moving off where they have a vote earlier or change or hamper business in america. and the nation for having to vote earlier, is move to a free market. in a free market. couldn't people have to vote whether they want a union, don't have to wait 60 or 90 days, i don't see it's a big deal or as far as the current...
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it free from the constraints of the political and economic power structure the unions are connected to so how should we look at these new tactics as a way to really take the left where it should go or is a misstep the could hurt those who need it most to discuss this with me is tim chirac investigative journalist and labor activist tim thanks so much for joining me tonight thank you ok let's start with the basic stuff right if you look at this strategy of trying to go and shut down the ports and the west coast ports essentially right i think that about half of our of our exports when it comes to what comes in on containers exports and imports goes to these ports there is it a good way a good target if you really want to hit the right strings it's a great target but i think the way the grant went about it was it was not the right way to go at all let me say i'm speaking as a trade unionist someone who supported occupied my union has endorsed it but you know i belong to my place of work has endorsed it i've been there as an individual played music coming out talk to people there so you k
it free from the constraints of the political and economic power structure the unions are connected to so how should we look at these new tactics as a way to really take the left where it should go or is a misstep the could hurt those who need it most to discuss this with me is tim chirac investigative journalist and labor activist tim thanks so much for joining me tonight thank you ok let's start with the basic stuff right if you look at this strategy of trying to go and shut down the ports...
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they were talking about replacing the soviet union with something like the european union when you spoke about gorbachev you mr medlock once said i quote it's very unusual to find a leader who will risk his own leadership in order to change the system doesn't work well your boss of that time mr reagan cold called russia the soviet union the evil empire do you personally believe that russia was the evil empire at the gorbachev's wit and he's power to change it or were this it you know wasn't as evil as reagan portrayed it well reagan never well he used that term in one speech and it was a speech to the domestic audience. one thing reagan understood the love that he did not conflate the soviet union with russia one thing he was very appreciative of russian history he was very respectful of the victory in world war two but we were very much aware of stalin's purges the fact that stalin killed probably as many soviet citizens as hitler did now you're going to be more maybe more now you're going to call that about nine empire well it isn't him higher in the sense that you have various nations
they were talking about replacing the soviet union with something like the european union when you spoke about gorbachev you mr medlock once said i quote it's very unusual to find a leader who will risk his own leadership in order to change the system doesn't work well your boss of that time mr reagan cold called russia the soviet union the evil empire do you personally believe that russia was the evil empire at the gorbachev's wit and he's power to change it or were this it you know wasn't as...
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the gas leakage from the union carbide made them sleep forever. anderson go to hell union carbide go to hell. for so many years who's been drinking poisonous water even today the water is still poisonous and all of our children are sick. the entire community split up with a problem that is why we will keep fighting until you agree to all demands the fine to continue. and i did for a gas leak from a union carbide corp factory in bhopal killed up to twenty five thousand people it was one of the world's worst industrial accidents more than thirty thousand people are believed to have died from the effects of toxic chemicals released into the air from this factory the union carbide plant in the central indian city of book. on up on the contaminated water is making our lives how they're going to get even that. all these are tons of stuff that we just live betty that is three forty six tons of waste that in that warehouse additives of thousands of tons of waste on the surface of the back to provide. this. it was the plant that was responsible for causing
the gas leakage from the union carbide made them sleep forever. anderson go to hell union carbide go to hell. for so many years who's been drinking poisonous water even today the water is still poisonous and all of our children are sick. the entire community split up with a problem that is why we will keep fighting until you agree to all demands the fine to continue. and i did for a gas leak from a union carbide corp factory in bhopal killed up to twenty five thousand people it was one of the...
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we have the meeting where we invited all the unions -- had the meeting were reinvented all of the unions that represented dbi. some of the unions had decided it would not have an impact on them, but two of the unions could not attend the meeting. one union did come to the meeting, and they were ok with it. >> will there be a meeting before the end of the year, or does it get extended to were part of this activation or perpetual implementation is not to occur this year? >> from what i understand in trying to get a meeting with one union, the union that requested opportunity to meet and confer, they will not be available -- i doubt they will be available this calendar year. we are continuing to contact them and try to work through their schedule. they are having internal issues, so it makes it a little more difficult to get on their calendar. >> we are ready to go as soon as that happens? >> yes. commissioner lee: that brings up a point about the permit tracking system. our unions involved with that right now? >> we have talked to them and going to involve them from the beginning, guest. i
we have the meeting where we invited all the unions -- had the meeting were reinvented all of the unions that represented dbi. some of the unions had decided it would not have an impact on them, but two of the unions could not attend the meeting. one union did come to the meeting, and they were ok with it. >> will there be a meeting before the end of the year, or does it get extended to were part of this activation or perpetual implementation is not to occur this year? >> from what...
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unions, particularly the big union bosses. you can argue greed by unions kill the auto industry, the trucking industry, you know, hurting the airline industry and the bosses in the unions, forget about it. they, really, really do live a life that only the 1% could even recognize. >> neil: dagen? >> where do you think that this, this hipocracy comes from? what did you say in the intro, rich corporate fat cats, how many heard if you heard those two words, fat cats come out of the president's mouth. >> neil: as soon as i hear that, i don't listen to the rest. >> when you say fat it's almost literal, literal in that photo. >> rich, calorie challenged. >> the two men in the photo. can you imagine they're saying to each other, yo, you think my gut is too big to-- >> hey, hey, hey. >> careful, careful. gasperino? >> why would they bite the hand that feeds them? i mean, i've done some reporting on this. >> the unions, particularly the union city, united federation of teachers and other unions are financing the occupy wall street movem
unions, particularly the big union bosses. you can argue greed by unions kill the auto industry, the trucking industry, you know, hurting the airline industry and the bosses in the unions, forget about it. they, really, really do live a life that only the 1% could even recognize. >> neil: dagen? >> where do you think that this, this hipocracy comes from? what did you say in the intro, rich corporate fat cats, how many heard if you heard those two words, fat cats come out of the...
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to the soviet union. people in the soviet union and the united states won nobel prizes together during the cold war. and people traveled from the third world to eastern europe or from eastern europe to latin america, all these different places. so these -- what's very important is that people were not isolated. people, in fact, were sharing ideas. and these ideas fundamentally, they implemented them and created new economies. >> what do you find that -- well, first of all, you teach sociology -- >> yeah. >> -- here at george mason, not economics. >> i know, i know. >> and you're an economist by training? >> no, i've taken economics a lot, i was a math major. sociologists are interested in numerous things, one of which is the neoliberalism. it's very interesting to sociologists because neoliberal policies are being implemented worldwide. people want to know, first of all, where do these ideas come from. but people also want to know the consequences of these ideas on the world. what's happening to people in
to the soviet union. people in the soviet union and the united states won nobel prizes together during the cold war. and people traveled from the third world to eastern europe or from eastern europe to latin america, all these different places. so these -- what's very important is that people were not isolated. people, in fact, were sharing ideas. and these ideas fundamentally, they implemented them and created new economies. >> what do you find that -- well, first of all, you teach...
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in terms of foreign policy defense under the issues on the other hand the old timers of the union or who have complied with the requirements would have a different attitude to those who joined the union just recently. and here's the final question on the u.s.s.r. promoted a certain ideology any strong state needs to have an ideology to give. russia has come up with some of its own. i used to go to now suddenly once they cooled a national idea has not been articulated yes well going we all work to make people's lives better and safer the demographic situation needs improving the economic model needs an overhaul sure because the one that was in place before the two thousand and eight crisis will not work in the future these challenges are evident was good and taken together your mortgage if they represent russia's national idea. thank you you're welcome. the least explain korea's. touched. surrounded by steve. case paintings on display for thousands of years. more news today. again flared up. these are the images. from the streets.
in terms of foreign policy defense under the issues on the other hand the old timers of the union or who have complied with the requirements would have a different attitude to those who joined the union just recently. and here's the final question on the u.s.s.r. promoted a certain ideology any strong state needs to have an ideology to give. russia has come up with some of its own. i used to go to now suddenly once they cooled a national idea has not been articulated yes well going we all work...
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the union just recently set up with seventy. here's a hypothetical questions just several years after the collapse of the soviet union nato war and he was right here if the u.s.s.r. had not collapsed do you think nato would have gone ahead with operations in yugoslavia afghanistan iraq and libya with it no more. talking of nato involvement in yugoslavia i think it could have taken place even when the u.s.s.r. was still alive because the alliance acted without permission of the un security council but there is much more to it in a few years after the dissolution of the u.s.s.r. i mean in the first half of the one nine hundred ninety s. our foreign policy was to show support for the us position sure to follow in its footsteps this is the position of the foreign ministry voiced by its head was as follows we desperately need to become part of the civilized world by any means the rest is jibberish so the west must have seen that such sentiment was present in post soviet russia and may even have been prevalent in some circles that is
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of the soviet union. the former moscow correspondent detail the day mikhail gorbachev resigned as president of the ussr and the coup that led to that day. discusses the transition from communist superpower to open market republic with thomas blanton, director of the national security archives. >> conor o'clery, author of moscow december 25th:1991:the last day of the soviet union. a stupendous moment, end of an empire without firing a shot. alternative versions of that day include the current prime minister of russia calling it a geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century. can you give us a sense of that historic perspective, your take legal big picture? >> when my publisher asked me to write a book about the fall of the soviet union to mark the 20th anniversary i came to realize that this day was a day for a human drama because of the -- boris yeltsin and mikhail gorbachev, but also it goes and retarded in most histories of the time. i came to realize this day marked the end of the superpower. if you co
of the soviet union. the former moscow correspondent detail the day mikhail gorbachev resigned as president of the ussr and the coup that led to that day. discusses the transition from communist superpower to open market republic with thomas blanton, director of the national security archives. >> conor o'clery, author of moscow december 25th:1991:the last day of the soviet union. a stupendous moment, end of an empire without firing a shot. alternative versions of that day include the...